[00034] Relative heat flux in nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations and thermoelectric efficiency
Session Time & Room : 4E (Aug.24, 17:40-19:20) @G401
Type : Contributed Talk
Abstract : Thermoelectric generators directly convert a temperature difference into electrical energy. To study their efficiency, we consider second-order integro-differential equations describing the steady-state temperature distribution inside thermoelectric generators when the Seebeck coefficient of the thermoelectric material is temperature-independent but the electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity are temperature-dependent. In this talk, we show that the temperature solution is unique and the relative boundary Fourier heat flux can be explicitly written. Therefore, the efficiency has an explicit formula.
